Saint George's: the horseshoe-shaped bay

The Carenage, the port shaped like a horseshoe, brings together French and British colonial warehouses facing directly onto the water, now city shops and offices.

Climbing to Fort George, an eighteenth-century French fortress above the city, you dominate the entire bay and the port below, with views out to open sea.

Continuing on, you visit the Spice Market, where nutmeg, cinnamon and cocoa grown on the island are still sold loose among the stalls, with intense fragrances filling the air from early morning.

Toward evening, the beach of Grand Anse, just outside the city, closes the day with one of the Eastern Caribbean's most celebrated sunsets, sand still warm underfoot.

Grenada remains one of the world's major nutmeg producers, so much so that a stylized nutmeg appears even on the national flag as a symbol of the country's economic identity.

Fort George was the site of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop's execution in 1983, an event that preceded the United States military intervention on the island by just a few days.